BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese army bulldozers plowed through wreckage to reopen roads around Beirut's demolished port Thursday, a day after the government pledged to investigate this week's devastating explosion and placed port officials under house arrest.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is quarantining thousands of people and shipping food and other aid to a southern city locked down over coronavirus worries, officials said, as the country’s response to a suspected case reinforces doubt about its longstanding claim to be virus-free.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A bright side for plant nurseries of Melbourne’s first pandemic stay-at-home order was that many householders took the time to garden. But the latest lockdown in Australia’s second-largest city is far tougher.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Pygmy hogs — the world’s smallest and rarest wild pig — are under a virus lockdown.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — When a right-wing populist party won the right to govern Poland five years ago, Piotr Grabarczyk feared “bad things” might happen to gay men like him and other LGBT people. He sometimes considered leaving the country, but waited.

Stocks were mixed in Asia on Thursday as investors watched to see if lawmakers will come ahead with fresh stimulus for a U.S. economy struggling with shutdowns as new coronavirus outbreaks flare.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — On June 2, Justin LaFrancois attended a protest against police violence and racism in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, where he planned to livestream the event for his alternative newspaper’s website.

BEIRUT (AP) — As black smoke billowed into the sky, Shiva Karout stepped out of his gym with his colleagues and customers to watch. His gym, Barbell House, sits just across the coastal highway from Beirut’s port where a fire raged. They were curious.

TOKYO (AP) — The five Olympic rings floating on a barge in Tokyo Bay were towed away Thursday for what is being called “maintenance," but officials say the iconic Olympic symbol will return to greet next year's Games.

NEW DELHI — India has recorded the biggest single-day fatalities of 904 in the past 24 hours as fresh coronavirus infections surged by another 56,282 cases to reach nearly 2 million.

HOUSTON (AP) — When officers led them out of a detention facility near the U.S.-Mexico border and onto a bus last month, the 12-year-old from Honduras and his 9-year-old sister believed they were going to a shelter so they could be reunited with their mother in the Midwest.

PARIS (AP) — As Lebanese rescuers counted the dead and combed rubble for signs of life a day after a huge explosion shattered swaths of Beirut, nations near and far pledged Wednesday that the country, already trapped in a deep economic crisis, would not be left alone.

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the explosion in Beirut (all times local):

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — The dwindling witnesses to the world’s first atomic bombing marked its 75th anniversary Thursday, with Hiroshima's mayor and others noting as hypocritical the Japanese government's refusal to sign a nuclear weapons ban treaty.

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona has grown more politically moderate in the past five years, but Republican primary voters haven’t entirely abandoned Joe Arpaio, the six-term sheriff of metro Phoenix who lost the job in 2016 amid voter frustration over his legal troubles and headline-grabbing tactics.

POCATELLO – Carlos Brewer, 42, of Pocatello, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 235 months in federal prison for receiving sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced Tuesday.

POCATELLO — A local pastor who has for years been pushing to build a homeless shelter in Pocatello says she has been the victim of what she believes to be hate crimes spanning at least the past year. 

Southeastern Idaho Public Health confirmed 30 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday and the state added 473 new confirmed and probable cases. 

An Idaho Falls man who pleaded guilty to rape was sentenced to prison Monday.

BOISE — State officials said during Tuesday’s AARP telephone conference that 58% of Idaho’s COVID-19 deaths have been linked to long-term care facilities.

A brush fire that started Wednesday afternoon along Autumn Lane south of Pocatello was quashed quickly because the flames were spotted by a Pocatello Valley Volunteer Fire Department member who lives on the street, according to the department's fire chief. 

MERIDIAN — A former Canyon County prosecutor faces two felonies after his arrest Saturday in Meridian.

LOGAN, Utah — Ninety years ago, hemp researchers at Utah State University grew cannabis for rope and had no way to test the THC content in crops other than smoking it and monitoring the effects. Research halted in 1970 when then-President Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substances Act.

Southeastern Idaho Public Health has 30 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 (15 in Bannock County, 6 in Bear Lake County, and 9 in Bingham County) in southeast Idaho.This brings the total of confirmed and probable cases to 827. Out of the 827 cases, 656 have recovered from COVID-19.For Southeast…

AMERICAN FALLS  — A local used car dealership reportedly lost at least 43 cars, a semi and a backhoe Tuesday afternoon due to a brush fire caused by a truck for sale that had the catalytic converter stolen. 

ASHTON — A man who led a Fremont County deputy on a high-speed chase that reached 100 mph took his own life after he finally stopped, police said. 

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s mayor on Wednesday announced that the nation’s third-largest school district will not welcome students back to the classroom to start the school year, and will instead rely on remote instruction.

Two horses were rescued from a burning horse trailer on Tuesday night along southbound Interstate 15 just north of Pocatello, police said.

BOISE — Gov. Brad Little announced Wednesday that he’ll call the Idaho Legislature into a special legislative session on Aug. 24, though specific topics still are being negotiated.

While U.S. Sen. Jim Risch still has a huge advantage over opponent Paulette Jordan in campaign cash on hand, Jordan came within $20,000 of his fundraising during the last campaign finance reporting period.

BEIRUT (AP) — Investigators probing the deadly blast that ripped across Beirut focused Wednesday on possible negligence in the storage of tons of a highly explosive fertilizer in a waterfront warehouse, while the government ordered the house arrest of several port officials.

The Idaho Democratic Party is canceling its 2020 convention, which had been planned for Aug. 28 and 29 in Boise, due to coronavirus.

The Idaho Transportation Department will start a digital open house Thursday for public feedback on potential changes to the intersection of Interstate 15 and U.S. Highway 20.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Clashes outside a U.S. courthouse in Portland, Oregon, have largely stopped since Democratic Gov. Kate Brown reached a deal that called for the draw down of federal agents sent by the Trump administration to protect the building — but the turmoil is far from over.

The aftermath of a massive explosion in the Lebanese capital of Beirut shows a shattered city covered in dust and debris.

BEIRUT (AP) — Investigators began searching through the wreckage of Beirut’s port Wednesday for clues to the cause of the massive explosion that ripped across the Lebanese capital, and the government ordered port officials put under house arrest amid speculation that negligence was to blame.